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Portella della Ginestra massacre

Index Portella della Ginestra massacre

The Portella della Ginestra massacre was one of the most violent acts in the history of modern Italian politics, when 11 people were killed and 27 wounded during May Day celebrations in Sicily on May 1, 1947, in the municipality of Piana degli Albanesi. [1]

54 relations: Alcide De Gasperi, Baarìa (film), Bandiera Rossa, Baron, Beatrice Monroy, Bernardo Mattarella, Caltanissetta, Christian Democracy (Italy), Cold War, Common Man's Front, Fasci Siciliani, Francesco Cuccia, Francesco Renda, Francesco Rosi, Gaspare Pisciotta, Girolamo Li Causi, Giuseppe Alessi, Giuseppe Tornatore, International Workers' Day, Italian Communist Party, Italian General Confederation of Labour, Italian Socialist Party, Italy, List of massacres in Italy, List of victims of the Sicilian Mafia, Mario Puzo, Mario Scelba, Massacre, May Day, Michael Cimino, Monarchist National Party, Nicola Barbato, Palmiro Togliatti, PDF, Perjury, Piana degli Albanesi, Politics of Italy, Property, Robin Hood, Rome, Salvatore Giuliano, Salvatore Giuliano (film), San Cipirello, San Giuseppe Jato, Sicilian Mafia, Sicilian regional election, 1947, Sicily, Strychnine, Sutera, The Godfather, ..., The Sicilian, The Sicilian (film), Tuberculosis, Viterbo. Expand index (4 more) »

Alcide De Gasperi

Alcide Amedeo Francesco De Gasperi (3 April 1881 – 19 August 1954) was an Italian statesman who founded the Christian Democracy party.

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Baarìa (film)

Baarìa is a 2009 Italian film directed by Giuseppe Tornatore.

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Bandiera Rossa

Bandiera Rossa (Italian for "Red Flag"), often also called Avanti Popolo after its opening words (also to avoid any confusion with The three flags, another socialist song) is one of the most famous songs of the Italian labour movement.

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Baron

Baron is a rank of nobility or title of honour, often hereditary.

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Beatrice Monroy

Beatrice Monroy (born 1953) is an Italian writer and dramatist.

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Bernardo Mattarella

Bernardo Mattarella (15 September 1905 – 1 March 1971) was an Italian politician for the Christian Democrat party (Democrazia Cristiana, DC).

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Caltanissetta

Caltanissetta (Nissa or Cartanisetta) is a comune in the central interior of Sicily, Italy, and the capital of the Province of Caltanissetta.

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Christian Democracy (Italy)

Christian Democracy (Democrazia Cristiana, DC) was a Christian democratic political party in Italy.

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Cold War

The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states) and powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others).

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Common Man's Front

The Common Man's Front (Fronte dell'Uomo Qualunque, or UQ) was a short-lived right-wing populist, monarchist and anti-communist political party in Italy.

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Fasci Siciliani

The Fasci Siciliani, short for Fasci Siciliani dei Lavoratori (Sicilian Workers Leagues), were a popular movement of democratic and socialist inspiration, which arose in Sicily in the years between 1889 and 1894.

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Francesco Cuccia

Francesco Cuccia (1876 – 1957), also known as Don Ciccio, was a member of the Sicilian Mafia and one-time mayor of Piana dei Greci (now Piana degli Albanesi).

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Francesco Renda

Francesco Renda (Cattolica Eraclea, 18 February 1922 - Palermo, 12 May 2013) was an Italian Marxist historian, Communist politician and a university professor.

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Francesco Rosi

Francesco Rosi (15 November 1922 – 10 January 2015) was an Italian film director.

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Gaspare Pisciotta

Gaspare Pisciotta (Montelepre, March 5, 1924 – Palermo, February 9, 1954) was a companion and first cousin of the Sicilian bandit Salvatore Giuliano, and considered to be the co-leader of his outlaw band.

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Girolamo Li Causi

Girolamo Li Causi (January 1, 1896 – April 14, 1977) was an Italian politician and a leader of the Italian Communist Party (Partito Comunista Italiano, PCI).

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Giuseppe Alessi

Giuseppe Alessi (29 October 1905 – 13 July 2009) was an Italian politician.

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Giuseppe Tornatore

Giuseppe Tornatore (born 27 May 1956) is an Italian film director and screenwriter.

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International Workers' Day

International Workers' Day, also known as Labour Day or Workers' Day in some countries and often referred to as May Day, is a celebration of labourers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labour movement which occurs every year on May Day (1 May), an ancient European spring festival.

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Italian Communist Party

The Italian Communist Party (Partito Comunista Italiano, PCI) was a communist political party in Italy.

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Italian General Confederation of Labour

The Italian General Confederation of Labour (CGIL) is a national trade union centre in Italy.

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Italian Socialist Party

The Italian Socialist Party (PSI) was a socialist and later social-democratic political party in Italy.

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Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

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List of massacres in Italy

The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Italy and its predecessors (numbers may be approximate): Italy Massacres Massacres.

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List of victims of the Sicilian Mafia

This list of victims of the Sicilian Mafia includes people who have been killed by the Sicilian Mafia while opposing its rule.

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Mario Puzo

Mario Gianluigi Puzo (October 15, 1920 – July 2, 1999) was an American author, screenwriter and journalist.

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Mario Scelba

Mario Scelba (5 September 1901 – 29 October 1991) was an Italian Christian Democratic politician who served as the 33rd Prime Minister of Italy from February 1954 to July 1955.

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Massacre

A massacre is a killing, typically of multiple victims, considered morally unacceptable, especially when perpetrated by a group of political actors against defenseless victims.

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May Day

May Day is a public holiday usually celebrated on 1 May.

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Michael Cimino

Michael Cimino (February 3, 1939 – July 2, 2016) was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and author.

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Monarchist National Party

The Monarchist National Party (Partito Nazionale Monarchico, PNM) was a political party in Italy founded in 1946, uniting conservatives, liberal conservatives, conservative liberals and nationalists.

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Nicola Barbato

Nicola Barbato (Piana dei Greci, October 5, 1856 - Milan, May 23, 1923) was a Sicilian medical doctor, socialist and politician.

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Palmiro Togliatti

Palmiro Togliatti (26 March 1893 – 21 August 1964) was an Italian politician and leader of the Italian Communist Party from 1927 until his death.

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PDF

The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed in the 1990s to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.

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Perjury

Perjury is the intentional act of swearing a false oath or falsifying an affirmation to tell the truth, whether spoken or in writing, concerning matters a generation material to an official proceeding.

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Piana degli Albanesi

Piana degli Albanesi (Albanian: Hora e Arbëreshëvet) is a comune with 6,212 inhabitants in the Metropolitan City of Palermo, Sicily.

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Politics of Italy

The politics of Italy are conducted through a parliamentary republic with a multi-party system.

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Property

Property, in the abstract, is what belongs to or with something, whether as an attribute or as a component of said thing.

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Robin Hood

Robin Hood is a legendary heroic outlaw originally depicted in English folklore and subsequently featured in literature and film.

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Rome

Rome (Roma; Roma) is the capital city of Italy and a special comune (named Comune di Roma Capitale).

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Salvatore Giuliano

Salvatore Giuliano (Sicilian: Turiddu or Sarvaturi Giulianu) (16 November 1922 – 5 July 1950) was a Sicilian bandit, who rose to prominence in the disorder which followed the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943.

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Salvatore Giuliano (film)

Salvatore Giuliano is a 1962 Italian film directed by Francesco Rosi.

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San Cipirello

San Cipirello (Sicilian: San Ciupirreddu) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Palermo in the Italian region Sicily, located about southwest of Palermo.

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San Giuseppe Jato

San Giuseppe Jato (Sicilian: San Giuseppi; Latin: Iaetia) is a village in the Province of Palermo in Sicily, southern Italy.

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Sicilian Mafia

The Sicilian Mafia, also known as simply the Mafia and frequently referred to by members as Cosa Nostra (this thing of ours), is a criminal syndicate in Sicily, Italy.

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Sicilian regional election, 1947

The Sicilian regional election of 1947 took place on 20 April 1947.

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Sicily

Sicily (Sicilia; Sicìlia) is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Strychnine

Strychnine (also or) is a highly toxic, colorless, bitter, crystalline alkaloid used as a pesticide, particularly for killing small vertebrates such as birds and rodents.

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Sutera

Sutera is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Caltanissetta in the Italian region Sicily, located about southeast of Palermo and about west of Caltanissetta.

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The Godfather

The Godfather is a 1972 American crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and produced by Albert S. Ruddy, based on Mario Puzo's best-selling novel of the same name.

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The Sicilian

The Sicilian is a novel by Italian-American author Mario Puzo.

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The Sicilian (film)

The Sicilian is a 1987 action film based on the novel of the same name by Mario Puzo.

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Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB).

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Viterbo

Viterbo (Viterbese: Veterbe, Viterbium) is an ancient city and comune in the Lazio region of central Italy, the capital of the province of Viterbo.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portella_della_Ginestra_massacre

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